Examining new archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, One Law for All?
discusses legal transfer and practice in imperial and post-imperial
societies, including Russia, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia. The
essays collected here analyze the legal sphere as a site of struggle,
both in debate and in everyday life, from the level of universal
aspirations to particular local practices. The contributors explore the
ways in which both lawmakers and ordinary people talk about and actively
use the law, thereby telling a story of contested European hegemony,
local assertions, and multiple legal borrowings.

Here's the Table of Contents:

Introduction / Stefan B. Kirmse 9

Discussing Legal Reform

A Step for the "Whole Civilized World"? The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905-1917 / Benjamin Beuerle 39

A New Legal Order under Discussion: Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s / Benjamin Buchholz 67